No stinkin skimmer for me...

[Cazreef]

Great, now the Flying Monkey nightmares are going to start again :lol:

I've been here for about 20 years. Other than the 200" of snow each year, it is a beautiful place.

 

[Anonymous]

:lol:
200" huh? - Lucky bastard, you've been getting off easy!

I left there around 20 years ago so thanks for taking care of the place while I've been gone.. You're doing a great job, keep at it! :wink:

 

[Baianotang]

...good for you... and good luck in the long run...don´t put many or big fishes in there.

 

[SpecialK]

I have a 90 (set up almost 3 years) and a 300G (set up in Jan.) they are both skimmerless and BB.

I do my water changes regular and have not seen any yellow water come out of my tanks. I have sumps on both tanks and plenty of LR.

Kaye

 

[SpecialK]

I also started doing my water changes every 2 - 3 weeks and I am changing 20-30% we will see how this goes. I decided to make the change after I read this article http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... /short.htm

Kaye

 

[Anonymous]

Bump - skimmerless is interesting.

Skimmers are noisy, expensive, and add extra complexity.

 

[SnowManSnow]

let us know how your tank is in 6 months.. id really like to know how it works out

b

 

[Rick357]

Melbelle1820,

You're lighting should be fine for a Derasa.

I do suggest that you add a refugium for some additional biological filtration. Especially with your fishload. Scheduled carbon use is good, but the algae in a refugium will pull out a lot of what carbon can't. Some other benefits are, added water volume, haven for critter population, PH stability when reverse photoperiod is applied.

I ditched skimmers in '92 and never looked back, but still replaced it with a natural alternative. Relying on your live rock and live sand will not be enough in the long run.

Krato's that is exactly what I did, I wasn't quite as enlightened as early as 92, but I have been skimmerless with a refugium ever since. It is nice to see that there are other's here that subscribe to a non mainstream alternatives to reef keeping.

8)

 

[Chubosco]

What's a skimmer

 

[MelanieF]

Ok, so since I started this thread almost 2 years ago and recently received an email that it's active again I figure it's about time for an update.

The skimmerless setup worked very well for me. It is no longer skimmerless however as last fall I jumped feet first into acros. I now have a skimmer on my tank again (not one of those heavy duty expensive ones mind you but not the Seaclone either) and have also lightened my fish load. I no longer have any large and messy fish. I have 3 chromis, 1 firefish, 1 lyretail anthias, a sixline (controls pyramidellid snails on my clams extremely well) and a green mandarin.

If you're ever on RC look up my photo album under dreaminmel. There are some pics there showing some frags I acquired from Seneca Park Zoo in January. The ones of the A. nana on day 1 and the increased color and growth after one month tells me my system is loved by my acros. I have at least 19 acros now that are all colorful and growing. The skimmer? It's a Prizm Pro Deluxe.

Actually, I'll just post the before/after here for those of you that don't jump websites that often.

 

[Anonymous]

I tried going skimmerless for one year. The tank gradually got worse and worse off (yellowing of water, even with active carbon usage). Corals didn't open up as much, weren't as colorful, and did not grow as fast. I put back the skimmer and in a matter of 2-3 months, everything started to perk back up. From this experience, I would never go skimmerless again.

My skimmer clogged and I left it that way for 2 months. Everything was fine, but after a while I noticed more algae. Then planaria. It has taken over a month with the skimmer back on for the algae growth to stop and planaria to start settling down.

First two weeks, the skimmer produced so much crud.